In February, seven SP legislators voted for the BJP nominees in the Rayja Sabha poll. Rakesh Pratap Singh, one of the seven SP MLAs, voted for the BJP in the Rajya Sabha polls. He is an MLA from Gauriganj assembly seat in Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.
Afzal Ansari was convicted by the Special Court MP/MLA of Ghazipur in a Gangster Act case and awarded four years in jail. If the Allahabad High Court upholds the lower court's decision, Ansari will lose his membership of the Parliament. He won the Ghazipur seat on a Samajwadi Party ticket i
"I can only say that these so-called INDI bloc members, it is not at all an alliance because Mamata did not give a single seat to Congress in polls," Pralhad Joshi said.
Newly-appointed Bihar BJP chief Dilip Jaiswal has said that he has started work to fulfil the new responsibility given to him and the ruling NDA alliance in the state will start preparing under leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the assembly pol
"This is a rare happening where a President who has already got the number of primary votes has stepped back. So, in that sense, it's a very interesting political development," Sandhu told ANI.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and National Congress Party Chief, Ajit Pawar on Sunday announced that his party will fight the local body elections in the state independently.
The interim budget, tabled on February 1, took care of the financial needs of the intervening period until a government was formed after the Lok Sabha polls, after which a full budget was supposed to be presented by the new government.
Launching a scathing attack on the ruling government in Jharkhand, Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Saturday that the state today is heading towards destruction under the JMM government and JMM stands for "Jharkhand Mitaao Morcha".
Boosting the morale of the party workers ahead of the state assembly polls, Amit Shah said that whether it is the Modi government, Raghubar Das government or Arjun Manda government, the BJP government has not done anything due to which BJP workers have to bow their heads.
Prominent leaders of the party, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife, Sunita Kejriwal, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, Sandeep Pathak and Sushil Gupta were present at the occasion.
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi tore into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the recent government order in Uttar Pradesh that mandates shopkeepers to put up nameplates in front of their stalls stating their owner's name, saying that the ruling party is not able to "digest" its "moral defeat"